Other threads were old and about where to get a cheap mattress. While that information would also be valuable, I want to know what you guys recommend.

I'm looking for probably a queen size and am willing to invest a decent amount of money into a quality mattress. I have been sleeping on absolute shit my entire life and I have pretty bad lower back pain issues. Being able to have sex on said mattress is also a consideration (i.e. do memory foam mattresses really make it more difficult / not enjoyable?)

I never sleep on my back. I'm more of a side / stomach sleeper. Also, I'd rather be too cold than too hot. I have a ceiling fan and I have fans on both night tables to blow air in my face / create white noise.

$2,500 is iffy for latex (at least it was a few years ago when we shopped)

if you don't like to be hot i would recommend against memory foam and just get a regular mattress (you can always add a 2" or 3" memory foam topper later if you want).

Get a mattress with individual coils (different brands call it different things) so that motion doesn't transfer, it will also make the bed less bouncy so it will feel a little bit like memory foam in that regard.

I've got a Stearns and Foster Lux Estate and would definitely buy it again. Ours is hybrid (coil+foam), and it does get a little warm, but they also make a regular innerspring with no foam. I'm happy with it but we picked it after spending days trying mattresses, so you should just go to a few stores and lay down on a bunch of beds until you find what you like. Don't buy without laying in the bed for a long time.

I bought a memmory foam mattress from A Good Night Sleep Store...paid about $1,500 for the mattress and $1,500 for the base. The base makes the deal, as it adjusts like a hospital bed - great for leaning back up on Saturday mornings to watch TV in bed. I also had lower back issues and was seeing a chiropractor for 2 months before buying the new bed. The new bed solved my issues. The adjustable base allowed me to raise my feet about 2 inches (back sleeper), which took all the pressure off my lower back. Is still comfortable for side sleeping like this too.

Regarding heat/sex - no different. It is just as cool as a standard mattress and firm enough that you can make good whoopi. Best decision and $3K I've ever spent.

Just picked up a tempur-pedic cloud lux breeze (memory foam) with some cool gel tech that pretty much negates the too warm argument for memory foam. I would reccommend if you go to a Mattress-Firm type place that you ask if they have anything in clearance. They'll sanitize/bake and sell off floor models or returned mattresses for about half the brand new price.

Just so you know, most people (myself included) need an adjustment period on a memory foam mattress. You might wake up a little sore in your back for a couple weeks (to a month) before your body settles into it. After that it's great.

I need a place that sells mattresses for a good price and isn't overly priced in Raleigh. And offer finance options that doesn't do credit checks. I went to the place by Ollies in Cary and was great but if I could find something a little bit cheaper would be great. It's a king and they had it for 629. I just need the mattress only. I have box springs and bed frame

a few months ago switched to a tempurpedic cloud surpeme - extremely happy

we bought a mattress 8 years ago at rooms to go and it started getting lopsided on one side - like some of the springs had given out or something - they sent someone over and agreed to replace it under their 10 year warranty program - so we used it as a credit towards the tempurpedic

We got a "Firm" Sealy Posturpedic Optimum. Well within your budget. Easily the best money I have ever spent. It's very similar to the Tempur-Pedic, but much more cost effective. When I go on vacation, I miss my mattress, maybe even more than I miss my husband.

-No issues having sex on this mattress. -Does not trap and retain heat like other memory foam mattresses.

Anyone recommend a Triangle mattress store to browse and try different mattresses? The smaller, specialty stores have proven to be 1) far outside my budget (600-800) and 2) lacking in a diversity of brands.

I think I'm likely looking for a medium mattress (side and back sleeper), and probably can only afford innerspring or hybrid--probably won't go full memory foam because of heat concerns. I have greater heat concern than most because I sweat like nothing else when I sleep.

I just bought an iComfort ($2100 or so). I like it because I like firmer beds, sleeps cool, comfortable. Its not the overwhelming feeling of OMG THIS BED IS AWESOME that you get from a soft bed, but I end up sleeping harder and better.

The original mattress factory is made local, but they only make standard construction mattresses and no individual coils if that is important (or at least they used to). Other than that they have a great reputation and make a quality product.

we went to all of the chain stores (mattress firm, mattress warehouse, sleepy's, etc) and the original mattress factory and sleepy's had the best deal...the other contender was a serta iseries, but it was going to be $300 more and it didn't feel that much more comfortable (and after you've laid on that many mattresses in a day, it gets hard to tell)

i was disappointed in the original mattress factory's mattresses...theirs are the "traditional" style and you can feel it immediately

So buying a new mattress.. I've always been a pillow top guy but the soon to be wife thinks she likes memory foam. Will I eventually appreciate memory foam after spending the extra money? Or should I try to convince her to come to the traditional mattress side?

I bought this in 2013 for a few dollars less and couldn't be happier. Upgraded from a pillowtop to this and it is miles better by far. You can get a quality memory foam mattress cheap as long as you don't care about name brand attached (though I'm sure these all come from the same factory in China). sex takes some getting used to (you/her will have to do more work if you're used to a really springy mattress) but it isn't much different than doing it on a couch.

the only problem is it can run a little warm; I sleep with a fan on to counteract this. lighter sheets will also help.

it's been (5 months?) and she said she thinks she prefers the plush, so we haven't gotten one...i was especially nervous about the idea of memory foam because i get hot easily, but the pad at least is ventilated and has good reviews to that effect...i don't think i could do a full mattress of it

Wife and I went to a bunch of mattress stores and spent multiple days laying on mattresses. We initially bought a simmons memory foam phenom mattress because the salesman said it would not get softer and had excellent air flow. Well, over the course of 9 months, it got significantly softer (and we both prefer a firmer mattress). We returned that shit.

I then said fuck listening to the crooked salespeople and just used consumer reports. The "firmest" mattress they found was the traditional mattress by serta (but each seller calls it something different). We ended up getting the serta iseries traditional mattress and have been happy with it.

My parents have a temperpedic memory foam mattress and i had to sleep on it for a couple months last year. It is damn comfortable when you first lay on it, but if you roll over in the middle of the night you have to wait for the foam to reform and it sometimes feels like you get "stuck" in the foam. I did sleep well with that though.

I don't recommend a hybrid foam/coil. It was so hard to my wife over time so I went to get a 4" memory foam topper from Walmart and it's way comfy now. We used to have a pillowtop mattress. After 8 years it became indented. We did rotate the mattress often.

"Anybody bought a Casper, Leesa or other online only mattress lately?"

I looked at all these (plus Tuft and Needle and Dreamfoam) and finally pulled the trigger on Dreamfoam's parent sister company Brooklyn Bedding. I'm fucking thrilled it's been the best "adult" purchase of my life thus far. It's an incredibly overwhelming chore to try and get reviews for mattresses online though. It's basically so subjective that in the end I just said well it has to be better than what I"m sleeping on now which was an innerspring that's 20 years old and i could feel the coils.

The main thing that helped was this forum and the owner Phoenix. I donated $20 dollars to his site after I finally made my decision and the amount of knowledge about the industry as a whole is just insane. I learned so much. Maybe it can help you too.

Basically you're going to want to focus on trying to find out what the manufacturers are using for each of their foam layers and if you can't find that out then look elsewhere. I'll try and curate the threads that led me to my purchase, but I'm a big dude so I was more concerned with not tearing it up in a year so materials were of a huge concern for this type of investment.

I also used http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ but ultimately it was speaking with the guys of Brooklyn Bedding/Dreamfoam and Phoenix's breakdown of their materials that helped me out. SLTD just told me what I didn't want.

Quote :

"Phoenix,

I have let Chuck @ Dreamfoam and Mario@BrooklynBedding both know that my recent purchase was 100% because of the information on your forums. I don't know if that will go anywhere but I just wanted to personally thank you for an overwhelming amount of information.

I'm 6'5 280 and thought I would need 13" Gel Dreamfoam. Then Chuck recommended the Aria or the 12" UD for my size. I was almost going to pull the trigger when I saw that the BB Hybrid Latex wasn't as far off from those other two as I had thought and I'd had a chinese memory foam before but I wasn't absolutely thrilled on it. I knew all the subjective reviews wouldn't necessarily help me so I finally just decided to take the risk. You did however have one post about the Brooklyn Bedding base foam being a higher density than what DF had so I felt more comfortable ordering the latex.

On top of that I picked up a set of 4 steel slats from Amazon to replace my split King foundation. I also picked up the California King foundation that Dreamfoam Bedding carries. The mattress was delivered well before anything else and I couldn't wait so it's sitting on a split king foundation right now which hopefully doesn't hurt the mattress for a few more days.

It's the best I've slept at home in a long time. I went with Medium so the real test will be whether or not my weight is a factor on extreme sagging, but I could literally feel the innerspring coils on my old 20 year old mattress so I'm just hoping to get 5 years out of it at least.

Thanks again and donation is incoming."

Update: I received the slats and the foundation a week later (mattress came in 1-2 days Amazon Prime). Had minimal off-gassing and it's been 3 months and I don't have any noticeable sagging.

The other method suggested is to go to a big box store and find something that you like in the tempurpedic line and then find the comparable dreamfoam or brooklyn bedding (perhaps others) counterparts or "sleeps like" model and save a fortune.

-----Basically just go nuts on that forum, it's all easy to follow with links to responses and such and searchable. The manufacturers and dealers can only be invited to join by this dude (I put away my conspiracy theories of kickbacks I think he's just that passionate about the industry). There's also like freebies and such if you jump through an easy registration hoop and you can get different perks like free sheets or pillows from some.